Nick,
Tuesday, May 07, 2002, 4:01:09 PM, you wrote:

>> What is your column type? Why you don't use ORDER BY your_date_column
>> in the SELECT statement? It should work, but I can say you exactly
>> because I don't know your table structure. The other causes of wrong
>> result might be that something is not correct in your SQL statement.

NW> Right. here is the db schema: Feel free to berate me if I'm missing the
NW> obvious :-)
NW> CREATE TABLE iaadiplom_timetable 
NW> (
NW>     id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, 
NW>     module ENUM('0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5'), 
NW>     week VARCHAR(255) NULL,  
NW>     date DATE NOT NULL, 
NW>     ektione VARCHAR(255) NULL, 
NW>     title TEXT NULL, 
NW>     teacher_id INT NULL, 
NW>     PRIMARY KEY(id)
NW> )

NW> and here is my select:

NW>         $qry="SELECT id, module, week, ";
NW>         $qry.="DATE_FORMAT(date, \"%d %m %Y\") as date, ";
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The result of DATE_FORMAT() function is a string. So, in ORDER BY
clause is used string 'date'. That is why you get "wrong" sorting. Use
another alias for your date column, it should help you, i.e.:

        $qry="SELECT id, module, week, ";
        $qry.="DATE_FORMAT(date, \"%d %m %Y\") as mydate, ";
        [skip]
        $qry.="ORDER BY date ASC";
        
NW>         $qry.="ektione, title, teacher_id ";
NW>         $qry.="FROM $this->table ";
NW>         $qry.="WHERE module = '$module' ";
NW>         $qry.="ORDER BY date ASC";

NW> Thanks very much for the help!




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